Tides
Most places have this many highs and this many lows each day.
What is 2?
The top of the waves is called this and the bottom is this?
What are crest and trough?
Surface currents affect this on land.
What is climate?
Currents passing the eastern coasts of continents are usually this because they originate at a lower latitude.
What is warmer?
The distance between the wave crest is this?
What is the wave length?
These occur when the sun, moon and earth are all in a line.
What are Spring tides?
Water particles in a wave move this way.
What are circles?
What are winds?
This is a benefit of upwelling.
What is great fishing?
Oxygen enters the ocean from the atmosphere and from organisms that do this.
What is photosynthesis?
This occurs when the sun, moon and earth form a 90 degree angle.
What are neap tides?
When a wave approaches shallow water, this part of the wave increases.
What is wave height?
Currents off the eastern coasts of continents generally flow from these regions of Earth.
What are tropical or warmer?
This turns the surface currents.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
If a wave’s amplitude increases, the amount of this also increases.
What is energy?
If the high high tide is at 10:30 am on Monday, when will the next high high tide be?
What is 11:20?
A wave changes shape in shallow water because this slows water at the bottom.
What is friction?
Cold currents rising to the top are called this?
What is upwelling?
The Coriolis effect causes currents north of the equator to move in this direction.
What is clockwise?
Because substances are constantly being added and substances are constantly being used by plants and animals, the salinity of the oceans does this?
What is remains the same?
In class and in the powerpoint we talked about at least 2 different areas that have different tidal ranges. What are those areas and what are the tidal range in each of those areas.
(The test asks about 3 areas!)
What is Bay of Fundy - 50 ft
What is the Mediterranean Sea - 1-2 feet
What is Puget Sound - 15-17 feet
Half the distance of the height of a wave is called this of the wave.
What is amplitude?
Waters off the western coasts of continents are usually _______ because of the ____ origin of ocean currents passing
What is cooler? What is polar?
The warm water of this current affects Iceland’s climate.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This is the tidal range of Puget Sound.
What is 15-17 feet?